Thursday, May 31, 2007

Does Flex need an fconsole (like Java's jconsole)?

As Flex is used for more complex applications and is more widely used in the enterprise I'm wondering how long it's going to be before people want to peer inside the black box of the Flash Player and see how it's working (how the garbage collector's working, how many event/s it's processing and how it's using the operating system's vm system).

Java's addressed this with its JMX framework and the super-cool free jconsole tool that comes with the JDK that charts thread and memory utilization.Grant Skinner's been writing some cool stuffon the Player's memory management system. This presentation is a must for anyone developing enterprise Flex applications).

How long it will be before people will be asking if Flash Player needs an fconsole?

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About Me

After graduating from Cambridge University I worked in SCO's UNIX kernel team and then in DEC's VMS kernel team at their European R&D center in Italy, a team led by David Solomon, the author of the Windows Internals books.
In 2000, I joined the award-winning British start-up, Searchspace, a company whose AI software is used by financial services organizations around the world to detect and investigate money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion and organized crime.
After working the City at one of the leading investment banks I went on to build a Flex development team at the world's largest betting exchange, betfair.com. I am currently with Rule Financial Ltd., a London-based consulting company providing specialist business and technical consulting to the investment banks.
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